Submitted by oversizedsweetpotato t3_yip839 in relationship_advice
…and shared an Uber from there with her. Apparently she started chatting and waited for his luggage with him, then suggested to share a ride with two drop offs. Him and I both flew home from the same place the same day but on flights hours apart.
When he met me after my arrival he didn’t mention meeting anyone and lied saying he took the airport express train. I found out two weeks later while browsing his phone together. He gave her his contact. The girl goes to the same university as us. Over text he offered to take her to the library and (my favourite) spots around campus. Never mentioned his long term relationship. The language was flirtatious and excited - good nights and all.
He crossed so many boundaries. He said he “just wanted to be polite” with no intentions of meeting her again. He stopped replying 4 days after their meeting “out of guilt”. He had 3 weeks to tell me about this. He's been begging for forgiveness since and tries so hard to repent. He seems remorseful so I said I will try to move on. But there are moments I feel so foolish, stupid and angry about the situation, I just lash out at him and say very mean things.
How do I slowly regain trust in him? How do I stop myself from overthinking and overanalysing since I already said I'd commit to moving on? To me this situation feels like borderline cheating. If I read this story on here my first thought would be - so many red flags, consider breaking up. But now I just don't know how to deal with this, mhm....
TLDR: bf met a girl at the airport, took an Uber with her, lied to me and then flirted with her over texts. Torn on whether it's cheating, feels like it. I want to forgive but don't know how.
Cotheron t1_iujue8p wrote
Yah no I would be dropping him over this. There's no rebuilding trust because he lied to you and hid it from you.
If he had stopped at the airport and getting her number for educational reasons, fine whatever. I would have been mad and jealous but moved on.
This isn't just borderline cheating, I would consider this cheating considering the flirting and offering to take her places that he knows are romantic or you found special.